Charles Brannock: Foot measuring device
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Remains of Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine believed to have been found on Everest
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How the KKK scammed its members for cash
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Making radio pay: Toll broadcasting and the first ad on the airwaves
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‘Goldmine’ collection of wheat from 100 years ago may help feed the world, scientists say
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Eastern Air Lines | Bankrupt
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Sounds Vintage Presents: Radio Fallout
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100 years later, long-lost silent film found in Omaha auction
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Exploring Art Deco architecture's evolution from its 1920s roots to its modern resurgence in Art Deco 2.0
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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
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To mark the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, activist Crystal Eastman described the path to full freedom for American women
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Why did Denmark gain land after WW1 despite being neutral?
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Party patellas: The knee makeup fad of the '20s and '60s
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How a shipping error 100 years ago launched the $30 billion chicken industry
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Manchester City striker Erling Haaland eyes Dixie Dean's 95-year-old record of sixty league goals
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Al Capone's soup kitchen
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Metropolis (1927)
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Was 1920s Hollywood really as decadent and debauched as it looks in ‘Babylon’?
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Minneapolis church still holds services in Norwegian – congregation was founded in 1922 at the tail end of a decades-long migration of Norwegians to Minnesota
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Capitalism as Religion (1921)
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As Häxan turns 100, this utterly chilling silent film deserves more celebration – given it set the template for The Blair Witch Project and many more horrors besides
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‘I just wanted my life to end’: The mystery of Agatha Christie’s disappearance
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Print an Arduino-powered color mechanical television
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Public Domain Day 2022: Works from 1926 are open to all
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Lehmer Factor Stencils: A paper factoring machine before computers
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Climbing the carillon bell tower in Queen's Park, Loughborough and taking a behind the scenes peek at how it all works
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What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed
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A brief overview of popular slang of the 1920s in the US
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January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all!
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Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night (1927)
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Algonquin Round Table: How the group of writers became a symbol of the roaring twenties
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The great geomagnetic storm of May 1921
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Norway's social-democratic compromise doesn't owe to some eternal national character – it was a product of the revolutionary struggles of the interwar period
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As Coca-Cola’s popularity spread in the United States in the 1920s, rabbis around the country asked, is Coke kosher?
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The case of Leopold and Loeb
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When workers stopped Seattle
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Olivier Messiaen - Préludes pour Piano (1929)
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A massive amount of iconic works will enter the public domain on New Year’s Eve
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How pie-throwing became a comedy standard
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